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Dave on Raspberry Pi and messages
I logged into find my disk to full to use. Why didn’t it tell me? Here are my notes. Read More
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Dave on Raspberry Pi III
My third attempt to build a raspberry pi, it seemed easier to start a third page than refactor the last one. Here are my notes. Read More
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Dave on Raspberry Pi and LVM
My NAS Box Fan has failed, I need to decide to repair or replace. One obvious answer is to use my “Pi” to serve out a pair of mirrored USB connected disks. How to do that on a PI? Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on Raspian & APT
This snip was originally created to document the arse-ache I had building my second Pi; it documented problems with Jesse & Stretch. The current release is buster and so much of this content is deprecated. In April 2020, I had reason to explore the code I use to maintain the currency of the apt cache. I have moved deprecated content to the comments and updated this post. For more, see below/overleaf. … Read More
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Dave on notify-send
While installing docker, I decided I needed to write some notifications to ensure the configuration works. See Docker. I started with a TCL/TK script, which these days looks a bit old school, and writing the packer was (& remains) difficult. Virtualbox reports its status on Ubuntu via a very pretty interface, prettier than Apple script anyway, so I thought I’d have a lock. Read More